Step 1: If Avira is already installed on the Mac read step 6. If it is not, please follow these instructions.

Step 2: Add the software and key into the console repository

Right click on the software repository (should be the third item down in the console) and click new, software. It will ask you for the install file location, then for the key.

Step 3: On your Mac, enable SSH

Open the terminal. Type sudo -i and hit enter. Enter your sudo (root) password. Then type nano /etc/sshd_config and hit enter. Page down until you see the option that states PermitRootLogin and remove the # from the beginning of the line and set it to yes on the right. Make sure you set a root password using sudo passwd after you have done this.

Step 4: Activate Remote Login on your Mac

Go to System Preferences, Sharing, and click the check box to enable remote login. Close this window and restart the SSH service by going to the terminal and typing sudo launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd hit enter and then type sudo launchctl start com.openssh.sshd and hit enter. You can now close the terminal screen.

Step 5: Install software from the Repository

The Mac computers should now show up under your security environment or network neighborhood. Right click on the computer you wish to install it on, click installation, AMC Agent, Install. Enter the username Root and the password you set in step 3. It will take a minute, but then you will see that AMC agent listed as installed. Now right click the computer again, click installation, Avira Mac Security, Install. Enter the root username and password again. You will be able to tell it to use the default configuration or you can customize it. A few minutes after you hit send you will see the program installed in the console and you will see it installed on the Mac.

Step 6: If you already had the Mac Security Installed

Follow step 3 and 4. Once those are done, the only thing you have to install in step 6 is the Agent, and it will see the existing installation and start to monitor and control it.

You are now done, sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee and maybe a doughnut if you have one...